Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, was facing damaging losses on Sunday evening as the resurgent far-Right swept ahead of her party in regional elections.
Almost exactly a year after Mrs Merkel opened Germany’s borders to more than 1m asylum-seekers, her party was beaten into third place in her own... show more Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, was facing damaging losses on Sunday evening as the resurgent far-Right swept ahead of her party in regional elections.

Almost exactly a year after Mrs Merkel opened Germany’s borders to more than 1m asylum-seekers, her party was beaten into third place in her own parliamentary constituency, according to preliminary exit polls.

The anti-migrant Alternative for Germany party (AfD) surged ahead of Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) in initial projections with around 21 per cent of the vote.

“Merkel’s national approval ratings have fallen to a five-year low of 45%,

and she is yet to declare whether she will lead her party into next year’s elections.”

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http://tinyurl.com/hxc2p3a . Wash Post jan 07 2016
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police felt “overwhelmed” in the face of the attackers
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Cologne, Germany, Jan 2016 :
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“According to a leaked police report,”
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“Roughly 1,000 men described by German officials as
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“being largely of ‘Arab or North African origin’
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“overwhelmed police in Cologne and attacked women in the city center on New Year's Eve, according to a leaked police report.
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“An unidentified senior official who wrote the report for Germany's national police described a "chaotic and shameful" evening.
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“Cologne was not the only European city to see trouble on New Year's Eve,

“Police in Helsinki, Finland said that 15 Iraqi asylum seekers were arrested amid allegations of groping and harassing women.”
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“The situation, police said,
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might have been worse had police not received a tip that
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groups of Iraqi asylum seekers were planning disturbances
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“leading the Helsinki police to deploy far more officers than usual.
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“Attacks were reported elsewhere in Germany, too, including Hamburg and Stuttgart, per the BBC.”
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